Back safe and sound to Australia and so so thankful for the amazing twelve months I spent overseas! University: I have done 10 subjects and 10 exams to complete my year on exchange. University of Malaya is a great uni and after the initial adjustments to classes running on Malay time (min half hour delayed!), dress expectations (modest and well-covered) and the change of pace in the classrooms (minimal discussion, lots of notes), I had a really good year! The c...

This semester I enjoyed my classes a lot more and felt a lot more involved on campus. It was nice to finish with class photos and see all the familiar faces in the exam halls! I took 5 classes and so had 5 exams to sit. I did miss my second due to being sick but will get special consideration and arrange to sit this once I'm back home. My first exam was for Central Asia International Relations. I wrote 3 essays about how the US helped Central Asia to republicis...

We were so excited as we flew in to Penang! Definitely don't enjoy arriving at night since you can't see much but our hostel had waited up to check us in which was lovely since it was well after midnight! I unfortunately got very sick in Penang. It was called acute gastroenteritis and treated as food poisoning but I ended up going to hospital on Sunday after spending most of Saturday in not great shape. Shout out to Queen's Hostel in Georgetown for their amazin...

Such a jampacked week with Nic landing in Singapore and then we covered Johor, Putrajaya, KL and still have Penang this weekend! We reached KL on Wednesday afternoon and checked in to our hotel. We went out for some local food and saw the twin towers! We wandered through Pavilion too which is always so great at night time! Thursday we spent most of the day out and about. After breakfast at the hotel we headed out to Batu Caves. The trains were a bit of a hassle...

Putrajaya is simply amazing. It is the government area of Malaysia and like Canberra, it's a planned city so it all works really well together! We arrived around 830pm on the bus and got an uber to our hotel. I asked him to take the scenic route which was great so we got to see the city and bridges lit up at night time! We stayed at the Pullman Lakeside Hotel and gosh was I blown away! I had been watching it and planned to stay there if I visited for a night and...